No. 19 - 10 Jahres Ausgabe, Lech & Zürs

T.L.L. What stories did not make it into the magazine?
J.S. The stories about us, all the others have been printed.
All the content may be based on our personal interests, but
we are not at the focus, and we do not function as tour
guides. La Loupe is not supposed to be a small template for
the perfect holiday to copy, but rather a selection of the most
beautiful spots and amazing places like Lech Zürs. At the end
of the day, you want to arrive and start indulging without
having to rely on some stranger’s rating or having to hunt for
a restaurant when your tummy is already grumbling. Maybe
we even speak from experience here because we are no
travel-pros ourselves. But we do enjoy the hunt – or rather
the find and that’s what we need to share with everyone.
T.L.L. During the past year travelling and indulging
became pretty much impossible. What was your personal
way of coping with the situation?
B.S. We have been focusing on La Loupe for ten years and
that was always the intention and never questioned.
Suddenly, however, everything stood still, and other things
rather than travel magazines became important. As hopeless
optimists with a collection of 54 La Loupe editions and
the major design awards on our shelves we knew quite soon
that we would wait, cut back a little, and pick up where we
left off as soon as possible. Giving up is not in our nature
and even if we didn’t get to travel as much as we usually
do and couldn’t check out restaurants and hotels like we
usually do we did not have to cut back on our indulging.
I (Benjamin) am a passionate chef and Julia likes to use her
talent for design at home, too. We generally look closely at
our surroundings, at what and who influences us. We prefer
less rather than more.
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